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Legendary Australian hard rockers AC/DC have finally released their entire catalogue, including 20 studio and live albums and three compilations, in Apple’s iTunes store.

“AC/DC’s thunderous and primal rock and roll has excited fans for generations with their raw and rebellious brand of music, which also resonates with millions of new fans discovering AC/DC everyday,” Columbia Records and Apple, said in a statement announcing the deal.

“Their growing legion of fans will now experience the intensity of AC/DC’s music in a way that has never been heard before,” they added.

They join artists such as the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Metallica to finally relent and make their individual songs available for purchase. For years, AC/DC had shunned the digital mega-store in order to preserve the album format.

There was no reason why they’ve now relented, although I have a brilliant theory – tons of cash.

Garth Brooks and Tool are some of the bigger names that are still holding out.

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National music writer Darryl Sterdan is old enough to know better. He lives mostly in his head but also on his couch in Winnipeg, where he listens to music, thinks about music, writes about music and obsesses over music 24/7/365. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But he really will have to get that couch cleaned one of these days.

Jane has been a Sun reporter since 1995. Before coming to the Sun, was music, film, TV, theatre, news reporter/editor at Canadian Press Toronto from 1991-95; News/entertainment radio/print reporter at Broadcast News/Canadian Press Vancouver from 1989-91; TV reporter and entertainment anchor for CKVU in Vancouver, 1988; News reporter/news reader/at CJOR Radio in Vancouver, 1984-88. Briefly went to film school in London, England, in 1984.